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Aerie Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Aerie Pharmaceuticals is an ophthalmic pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of therapies for the treatment of open-angle glaucoma and other diseases of the eye. The company has an approved product, Rhopressa? and advanced-stage product candidate, Roclatan?, which both are designed to reduce elevated intraocular pressure in patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension. The company is also developing two preclinical sustained-release implants focused on retinal diseases, which include AR-13503 for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration and related diseases of the retina; and AR-1105, a preclinical dexamethasone steroid implant.

Ageas SA/NV

Ageas is an insurance company engaged in providing a range of life and non-life products distributed through a variety of channels. Co. focuses on helping its customers to mitigate risks related to property, casualty, life and pensions. Co. serves its customers through a combination of wholly owned subsidiaries, equity associates and partnerships, with financial institutions and distributors in Belgium, the U.K., Luxembourg, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, France, China, Malaysia, India, Thailand and Hong Kong. Co. is organized into five operating segments: Belgium, U.K., Continental Europe, Asia, and General Account.

Alaska Air Group Inc.

Alaska Air Group operates two airlines, Alaska Airlines, Inc. (Alaska) and Horizon Air Industries, Inc. (Horizon). The company's operation also includes McGee Air Services, an aviation services provider. The company has three segments: Mainline, which includes scheduled air transportation on Alaska's Boeing or Airbus jet aircraft for passengers and cargo throughout the United States., and in parts of Canada, Mexico, and Costa Rica; Regional, which includes Horizon's and other third-party carriers' scheduled air transportation for passengers across a shorter distance network within the United States under capacity purchase agreements (CPA); and Horizon, which includes the capacity sold to Alaska under CPA.

American Airlines Group Inc.

American Airlines Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company's business activity is the operation of a primary network carrier, providing scheduled air transportation for passengers and cargo. The company's regional carriers provide scheduled air transportation under American Eagle. The American Eagle carriers include the company's regional carriers Envoy Aviation Group Inc., PSA Airlines, Inc. and Piedmont Airlines, Inc., as well as third-party regional carriers including Republic Airline Inc., Mesa Airlines, Inc., SkyWest Airlines, Inc. and Compass Airlines, LLC. The company's cargo division provides freight and mail services, with facilities and interline connections available across the globe.

Bank of New York Mellon Corp. CEDEAR

Cardiovascular Systems Inc.

Cardiovascular Systems is a medical technology company. The company has developed an orbital atherectomy systems (OAS) for both peripheral and coronary commercial applications. The primary base of the company's business is catheter-based platforms capable of treating a range of vessel sizes and plaque types, including calcified plaque. The company's products include its coronary arterial disease (CAD) product, the Diamondback 360 Coronary OAS, which is a catheter-based platform designed to facilitate stent delivery in patients with CAD who are acceptable candidates for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty or stenting due to de novo, severely calcified coronary artery lesions.

Carter Bankshares Inc

Children's Place Inc.

Children's Place is a children's apparel retailer in North America. The company sells apparel, accessories, footwear and other items for children. The company designs, contracts to manufacture, sells at retail and wholesale, and licenses to sell merchandise, the substantial majority of which is under the proprietary The Children's Place, Place and Baby Place brand names. The company has differentiated departments and serves the wardrobe needs of girls and boys, toddler girls and boys and baby. The company's merchandise is also available online at www.childrensplace.com. The company's segments are The Children's Place U.S. and The Children's Place International.

CME Group Inc. Class A

CME Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company exchanges provides a range of global benchmark products across asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange (FX), agricultural, energy and metal commodities. The company provides futures and options on futures trading across asset classes through its subsidiary, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) Globex platform, cash and repo fixed income trading via BrokerTec, and cash and OTC FX trading via EBS. In addition, the company operates central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing, a division of CME. The company also provides optimization, reconciliation and processing services through TriOptima, Traiana and Reset.

Coherent Inc.

Coherent is a provider of lasers, laser-based technologies and laser-based system solutions in a range of commercial, industrial and scientific applications. The company reporting segments are: OEM Laser Sources (OLS) and Industrial Lasers and Systems (ILS). The company's OLS business segment is focused on laser sources and optical sub-systems primarily used in microelectronics manufacturing, medical diagnostics and therapeutic medical applications, as well as in scientific research. The company's ILS business segment delivers laser sources, sub-systems and tools used for industrial laser materials processing, serving end markets like automotive, machine tool, consumer goods and medical device manufacturing.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp.

Comtech Telecommunications is a provider of communications solutions for both commercial and government customers. The company's reportable operating segments include: Commercial Solutions, which provides satellite ground station technologies (such as modems and amplifiers) and public safety and location technologies (such as 911 call routing and mapping solutions); and Government Solutions, which provides technologies (such as tactical satellite-based networks and ongoing support for communication networks) and transmission technologies (such as troposcatter systems and solid-state amplifiers) to government end-users, international customers and domestic prime contractors.

Coty Inc. Class A

Coty and its subsidiaries are a beauty company. The company manufactures, markets, sells and distributes beauty products, including fragrances, color cosmetics, hair care products and skin and body related products. The company is organized into three divisions, which is also its operating and reportable segments: Consumer Beauty, Luxury and Professional Beauty. Consumer Beauty is primarily focused on color cosmetics, retail hair coloring and styling products, body care and mass fragrances. Luxury is primarily focused on fragrances, skincare and cosmetics. Professional Beauty is primarily focused on hair and nail care products for salon personnel.

GTY Technology Holdings

GTY is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a public sector Software as a Service company which provides a cloud-based suite of solutions. The company's segments: Bonfire Interactive Ltd.,which provides SaaS application; CityBase, Inc., which provides content, digital services, and integrated payments; eCivis Inc., which provides grants management and indirect cost reimbursement solutions; Open Counter Enterprises Inc., which develops and provides software tools; and Questica Inc. and Questica USCDN Inc., which designs and develops capital and operating budgeting software; and Sherpa Government Solutions LLC, which provides of public sector budgeting software and consulting services.

H.I.G. Acquisition

Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Ionis Pharmaceuticals is engaged in discovering and developing RNA-targeted therapeutics. The company has two commercial medicines, SPINRAZA and TEGSEDI. SPINRAZA (nusinersen) injection for intrathecal use is a survival motor neuron-2, directed antisense oligonucleotide indicated for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy in pediatric and adult patients. TEGSEDI (inotersen) injection is a Generation 2+ antisense medicine and an approved subcutaneous RNA-targeting medicine designed to treat people with polyneuropathy caused by hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis.

Kosmos Energy Ltd.

Kosmos Energy is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company operates as a deepwater independent oil and gas exploration and production company focused along the Atlantic Margins. The company's assets include production offshore Ghana, Equatorial Guinea and U.S. Gulf of Mexico, as well as gas development offshore Mauritania and Senegal. The company also maintains a sustainable exploration program balanced between proven basin infrastructure-led exploration (Equatorial Guinea and U.S. Gulf of Mexico), emerging basins (Mauritania, Senegal and Suriname) and frontier basins (Cote d'Ivoire, Namibia and Sao Tome and Principe).

Lantheus Holdings Inc

Lantheus Holdings develops, manufactures and commercializes diagnostic medical imaging agents and products that assist clinicians in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular and other diseases. The company's products include: DEFINITY, which is an ultrasound contrast imaging agent and is indicated for use in patients with suboptimal echocardiograms; TechneLite, which is a self-contained system or generator of Technetium, a radioactive isotope with a six hour half-life, used by radiopharmacies to prepare various nuclear imaging agents; and Xenon Xe 133 Gas, which is a radiopharmaceutical gas that is inhaled and used to assess pulmonary function and also to image cerebral blood flow.

LivaNova Plc

LivaNova is a medical device company focused on the development and delivery of therapeutic solutions. Co. has three product franchises: Neuromodulation, which engaged in the design, development and marketing of neuromodulation therapy for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy and treatment resistant depression; Cardiac Surgery, which engaged in the development, production and sale of cardiovascular surgery products; and Cardiac Rhythm Management, which engaged in the development, manufacturing and marketing of products for the diagnosis, treatment, and management of heart rhythm disorders and heart failure.

LiveXLive Media

LiveXLive Media is a digital media company focused on live entertainment and music services. The company is engaged in the acquisition, distribution and monetization of live music, Internet radio and music-related streaming and video content. Through its service offerings and content platform, the company provides music fans the ability to engage in and listen to live music, digital Internet radio and music streaming services on any connected device and screen 24/7/365, including desk-top, tablets, mobile applications and automobile music play interfaces. The company operates LiveXLive, a live music streaming platforms; Slacker Radio, a streaming music service; and also produces original music-related content.

Maxeon Solar Technologies

MEDNAX Inc.

MEDNAX provides physician services including newborn, anesthesia, maternal-fetal, radiology and teleradiology, pediatric cardiology and other pediatric subspecialty care. The company's network comprised of physicians, including physicians who provide neonatal clinical care, primarily within hospital-based neonatal intensive care units, to babies born prematurely or with medical complications. The company also provides radiology services and teleradiology services. In addition to its national physician network, the company provides services to healthcare facilities and physicians, including the company's, through complementary businesses, consisting of a management services organization and a consulting services company.

MeiraGTx Holdings plc

MSG Networks Inc. Class A

MSG Network is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in sports production, and content development and distribution, owns and operates two regional sports and entertainment networks, MSG Network (MSGN) and MSG+. The company's networks are distributed throughout all of New York State and main portions of New Jersey and Connecticut, as well as parts of Pennsylvania. The company's networks are also carried nationally by certain distributors on sports tiers or in similar packages. MSGN and MSG+ aired live professional games this past year, along with a lineup of other sporting events, including college football and basketball, as well as original programming.

Murphy Oil Corporation

Murphy Oil is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an oil and natural gas exploration and production company. The company explores for and produces crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids worldwide. The company's principal exploration and production activities are conducted in United States by wholly owned Murphy Exploration & Production Company - USA and its subsidiaries, in Canada by wholly-owned Murphy Oil Company Ltd. and its subsidiaries, and in Australia, Brazil, Brunei, Mexico and Vietnam by wholly-owned Murphy Exploration & Production Company - International and its subsidiaries. The company's hydrocarbon production is in United States, Canada and Brunei.

Orthofix Medical Inc.

Orthofix Medical is a medical device company focused on musculoskeletal products and therapies. The company manages its business by its four reporting segments: Global Spine, represented by three product categories; Bone Growth Therapies, which manufactures, distributes, and provides support services for bone growth stimulation devices; Spinal Implants, which designs, develops and markets a portfolio of motion preservation and implant products; and Biologics, which provides a portfolio of regenerative products and tissue forms; and Global Extremities, which provides products and solutions that allow physicians to treat a variety of orthopedic conditions unrelated to the spine.

ProAssurance Corporation

ProAssurance is a holding company for property and casualty insurance companies. The company has five segments: Specialty Property and Casualty, which includes its professional liability business and medical technology liability business; Workers' Compensation, which includes its workers' compensation business provided to employers with 1,000 or fewer employees; Segregated Portfolio Cell Reinsurance, which includes the company's Cayman Islands segregated portfolio cell operations; Lloyd's Syndicate, which includes the company's participation in Lloyd's of London Syndicates 1729 and 6131; and Corporate, which includes the company's investment operations, which are managed at the corporate level.

Radius Health Inc.

Radius Health is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing endocrine therapeutics in the areas of osteoporosis and oncology. The company's commercial product, TYMLOSTM (abaloparatide) injection is designed for the treatment of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture, or patients who have failed or are intolerant to other available osteoporosis therapy. The company is developing an abaloparatide transdermal patch for potential use in the treatment of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. The company is also developing its Elacestrant, a selective estrogen receptor degrader, for potential use in the treatment of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer.

Regis Corp.

Regis franchises, owns and operates hairstyling and hair care salons. The main services supplied by the company's salons are haircutting and styling (including shampooing and conditioning), hair coloring and other services. Salons also sell a variety of hair care and other beauty products. The company's operating segments are Franchise and the company-owned salons. The company's Franchise salon operations are comprised of franchised salons operating in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Puerto Rico. The company's the company-owned salon operations are comprised of salons operating in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Salons operate primarily under the trade names of SmartStyle, Supercuts and Cost Cutters.

Safety Insurance Group Inc.

Safety Insurance Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of private passenger, commercial automobile and homeowners insurance in Massachusetts. The company's product lines include: Private Passenger Automobile, which provides coverage for bodily injury and property damage to others, no-fault personal injury coverage for the insured/insured's car occupants, and physical damage coverage for an insured's own vehicle for collision or other perils; Commercial Automobile, which provides insurance for commercial vehicles used for business purposes; and Inland Marine, which provides inland marine coverage as an endorsement for all homeowners and business owner policies.

SecureWorks

SecureWorks is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides information security solutions focused on protecting its customers from cyber attacks. The company's integrated suite of solutions include: managed security, through which it provides its customers global visibility and insight into malicious activity enabling them to detect and remediate threats; and security and risk consulting, through which it advises its customers on a variety of security and risk-related matters. The company's proprietary Counter Threat Platform collects, aggregates, correlates and analyzes daily events from its customer base and uses algorithms to detect malicious activity and deliver security countermeasures.

Transmedics Group

TransMedics is a commercial-stage medical technology company transforming organ transplant therapy for end-stage organ failure patients across multiple disease states. The company developed the Organ Care System ("OCS") to replace a decades-old standard of care. The OCS represents a paradigm shift that transforms organ preservation for transplantation from a static state to a dynamic environment that enables new capabilities, including organ optimization and assessment. The company's OCS technology replicates many aspects of the organ's natural living and functioning environment outside of the human body.

Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Vanda Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company. The company's commercial portfolio is comprised of two products, HETLIOZ? for the treatment of Non-24 Sleep-Wake Disorder (Non-24) and Fanapt? for the treatment of schizophrenia. The company has a number of drugs in development, including: HETLIOZ? (tasimelteon), which is for the treatment of jet lag disorder, Smith-Magenis Syndrome, pediatric Non-24 and delayed sleep phase disorder; Tradipitant (VLY-686), which is a small molecule neurokinin-1 receptor antagonist, for the treatment of atopic dermatitis, gastroparesis and motion sickness; and VTR-297, which is a small molecule histone deacetylase inhibitor for the treatment of hematologic malignancies.

Wall Financial Corporation

Wall Financial is engaged in the business of hotel operations, real estate development and real estate investment, mainly in Metro Vancouver and the Lower Mainland of Canada. Co. is focused on the development, acquisition and management of residential income producing properties, the development and sale of single and multi-family housing and the development and management of hotel properties. As of Jan 31 2011, Co. had 1,057 residential and commercial rental units and 1,050 hotel rooms.

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. Class A

World Wrestling Entertainment is a media and entertainment company. The company is engaged in the production and distribution of content through various channels, including its over-the-top subscription network (WWE Network), content rights agreements, pay-per-view event programming, filmed entertainment, live events, licensing of WWE themed products, and the sale of consumer products. The company's operations are organized around the following activities: Media, which reflects the production and monetization of media content across various platforms; Live events, which provides ongoing content for its media platforms; and Consumer Products, which engages in the merchandising of WWE branded products.

Wynn Resorts Limited

Wynn Resorts is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a designer, developer, and operator of resorts featuring hotel rooms, retail space, an array of dining and entertainment options, meeting and convention facilities, and gaming. Through its subsidiary, Wynn Macau, Limited, the company operates two integrated resorts in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, Wynn Palace and Wynn Macau. In Las Vegas, NV, the company also operates and, with the exception of certain retail space, own Wynn Las Vegas and Encore Boston Harbor, an integrated resort in Everett, MA, adjacent to Boston.

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